It wasn't written for humans, but we have the pleasure of listening to it. Cyborgs in the year 3,000 will build their society over the ashes of humanity and Are friends electric will be their anthem.

@@D33Lux Cyberpunk 3000

i know im randomly asking but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my account password. I love any assistance you can give me!

@Gary Ali instablaster ;)

Not completely true - The year it was released, I entered a dance competition with this record and won. Possibly as everyone else danced to "safe" tried and tested music..

that's so true, it was always the striking thing about this at song. 40 years later still has that feel I agree, not sure how they did that!

never ages

and wiggy played guitar,,, erm no he didnt

Believe it or not. Gary Numan is a pilot. Sometimes his two feet is not on the ground but he's sitting in the cockpit.

kevin the truck driver yes, I did know that! He is highly regarded in the industry. It is refreshing to see someone who had such a successful and genre defining career be so modest about both his own abilities and how much good fortune played a part in his success.

He's an Aspie. Being honest and self-depreciating tends to go with the territory. In fact, some of us are more comfortable being criticized than praised.

@@kevinthetruckdriver353 last time i saw him he just climbed out of his harvard at an airshow, that had to be around '85 cos we had a B reg escort!

globalturfwar I couldn’t have said it better

We might have been living our best days, but 40 years ago we were also living in the shadow of global nuclear destruction. The Vietnam War had nearly torn the USA apart and we were still staring daggers across the Iron Curtain between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. I was alive then... the world was NOT that great a place. Easy to be nostalgic, too easy to forget the nightmares we were living in, but you can't change the past even if you forget it while dreaming fantasies of a past that never was. Although - yeah, some of the music was absolutely f***ing fantastic. Be nice if we had more like it, and less of the brainless s*** that continues to be made nowadays -- but again, don't fool yourself -- 40 years ago, for every brilliant creator like Mr Numan, there were a hundred and one forgettable disco/corporate rock sell-out machines back then too; and if you dig deep enough, there are some very interesting, creative artists out there today too.

@@mglenn7092 Hey. Agreed there are elements of rose tinted specs, but despite the so called progress, I think there's less optimism now. Perhaps it's because we were young and high on life. Perhaps its because the planet is in a much worse state - climate, overpopulation, pollution, ideological wars. We had the soviets and MAD, which was being pushed, but the media was more distant so the threat (to us in Harrow anyway) didn't seem so on our doorstep - and possibly we knew there was a way back from the brink. But I genuinely think life was simpler, we had less, but appreciated more. I think our culture sold us dreams - in our music and movies. I remember feeling an excitement to the possibilities of life. I feel life is a lot more dystopic and cynical - the internet is wonderful, but had exposed us to more direct horrors and nightmares - right on our fingertips. Regards the music - there is some fantastic stuff (check out "Soviet Soviet" - the band) but a lot of that harks back to the music of the 80s. I find the music from the 70s/80s and early 90s grand, experimental, mad, held together by string and tape, raw, visionary and ultimately selling us dreams. Of course you had your Birdie Songs but you also had Simple Minds, the Police, Numan, Depeche Mode, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Duran, Thomson Twins, Smiths... Have a great day!

Wow! I really never thought about that. I would go back and do it all over again if I could.

@@MisterTIBS hi. It depends what past we're clinging to. If it's trying to recapture that youthful feeling of optimism and excitement towards life, then that's not a bad thing in my opinion. You're right, there can be other motives too. I had a great time when I was young. Golden memories. This music was part of those memories

No its a minikorg and payne plays a ppg 1009, probably supplied by tv crew since numan used moog arp and roland in 70s

do you think noel gallacher would say he hit the wrong note or just claim he was a genuis again

The pop music industry is riddled with happy accidents, thank god.

I made Cliff Richard dance to Are Friends Electric by turning down the volume on Power to all Our Friends on my tablet, and turning up Are Friends Electric on my smartphone! Outta sight!! Try it, you'll like it!

Me too, I will dance to nothing else!

You said he was his own thing but then in the same sentence you compared him to bowie.. so which is it?

But did you see him on The Mighty Boosh?

vision inspiration and soul

In the 80's I had a Moog Prodigy and sold it for £5. A guy I knew says can you sell mine for £5. So Sunday afternoon walking around Glasgow music shops no one wanted it.

@@alwayshair1 hundreds of pounds.

$1000 if you are lucky

LOL yeah

geddy lee was playing it long before

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Bowie thought numan was a plagiarist, he wrote these lyrics 'same old thing in brand new drag' especially for him.

@@Kidraver555 he later, fairly recently, said something very nice about Gary, possibly whilst being elbowed by mutual friend Trent Reznor.

​@@Kidraver555 Would that be the Bowie who took influences from just about everywhere? Facts are Bowie was really threatened by Numan and acted like a spoilt child. Numerous artists ripped off Bowie for years and he never said anything. Yet when the 21 year old Numan arrived and produced some astonishing stuff, Bowie embarrassed himself with his childish reaction, especially on the Kenny Everett show.

After what happened in Cleveland a few years ago I'd lay odds it'll be a while before that happens.

what happened

@@KingLich451 A few years back he was going to Cleveland for a show and his tour bus ran over a 91 year old guy when it pulled into town, they canceled the show that night, I guess no one was charged there were witnesses that said he stepped out in front of it. It was a real shame to because it seemed like a lot of people were going to go to the show and it had been getting some pretty good promotion from the local media.

@@dukecraig2402 oh wow, rip, damn shame.

@@KingLich451 Yea it was pretty sad, seems like a lot of people were fired up for the show, I was living in the Cleveland area at the time and was even thinking about going, I don't live there anymore but I hope for the fans sake that he goes back one day, I'll bet he puts a pretty good show on.

Don't forget the humble and charming wig too :)

it`s gone mate .

verified- have danced to this, in public. Was not only human moving limbs rhythmically to reproduced audio signal.

Ouch!

Right?

There are enough people to carry your touch, my dear man. And after us, those that follow....

Don't count the years.. just be glad he was here with us then and he's here with us now and it's all still relevant..

Lmfao

Haha never thought I was a goth industrialist but I guess I found my Clique.

❤

Maybe in the future!

its Dutch Public Broadcast channel 3 😉

check out Gary Numan: Android in La La Land. Great doc

@@howdyho4807 ooh, thanks a lot!

Do a little Google research to appease your own curiosity. A lot of times I always do some side research to find out more. I also fact check content that's given in narration. This channel gave us something, than nothing. It's up to you if you want to know more. The seed has been planted, are you going grow for more knowledge? Or just wait around for the knowledge you seek to come to you?

Agree.

That award goes to Dave Groehl

@@fsemple a valid alternative

Same here!

one of the very first albums I bought as a little tiny baby boy based on the cover alone need not say I was different Still an all time favorite song and vinyl

Mark Schroeder that’s a great story, Mark! I will cover Gary someday too! He’s just so cool!

he might have had some "plants", but this is clearly a wig. but I don't he pretends that it's his hair. i think he decided to go Andy Warhole, as crazy as possible

His 1982 hairtransplant at age 24 scarred him so much that he cant be bald to show al stitches that is why he wears a wig, really true

He coukdhave went a bit darker tha don't u think ? .....🤣

I’ll critique it. It’s there to make a statement, so...

Anyone who thinks it's important AT ALL to critique his hair definitely misses the point of his music and probably should go watch TV or something equally shallow.

"We never made it out of the garage." I blame your bass player.

@@TANTRUMGASM Maybe, but staying married for 23+ years isn't.

@@quasarsphere true enough, staying together that long is not common today, and even more rare for rock stars. I think I was drunk when I wrote that ..might just delete it. Cheers !

Agreed

After 40 years it’s still my idea of the future... The other day I was listening to the earliest albums of “A Flock Of Seagulls”; at the beginning they were futuristic too (1981-1983), then the real eighties came, and the geeks gave way to the yuppies...

That electronic stuff back then was futuristic and still is if that's not an Oxymoron

By the way, I’m working on a track named “Lost Future” 😌

Are 'Friends' Electric? Still sounds 'futuristic' to me too, but what about the KZfaq algorithm which predicted that we would like this video? Does our Android dream of electric sheep?

lifes one long holiday for him and yoko,,,thanks to you mugs

he has got to finish and remix 3 albums ,,,,w t f is he playing at??

I was at Top of the Pops and got Jimmy Saville's autograph........J shaped cum soaked boy scout shorts.......thanks mate

@@tonyjenkins7156 I bet you still have them though and they've never been washed.

@@tonyjenkins7156 WAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@Only_Fools_and_Audits I bet you dream about them and you wish they were on your face......

@@tonyjenkins7156 .... Like Jimmy's ball sack bouncing on your chin.

Saw him back in the day and recently he struts about now like a guitar hero now....not cool

sounds like an airshow i saw him at was this a long time ago? I'm a bit out of touch these days, moved to Australia. Well a lot of his concerts were made into video, probably can get them on DVD :-) He did spectacular light shows, lots of dry ice and excellent stage performances from Gary of his songs. Sigh, good times

@@shelleywinters6763 We are probably talking around 28 years ago. I saw him at Barton Airshow which is in Manchester

@@darkpoethd9913 Yep I think i was there. :)

Great stuff!